Nick Pokorzynski
@npokorzynski
Incoming Asst Prof @OregonState Microbiology | Currently Postdoc @YaleMicroPath | Bacterial metabolism, virulence, & abx susceptibility | he/him | Views = mine
🚨Big update!🚨 I’m thrilled to share that I will be joining the Department of Microbiology @OregonState as an Assistant Professor this fall! 🦫 Graduate school first took me to the Pacific Northwest and I am very excited to make the (admittedly very long) journey back.
This paper by Shraddha Karve discusses how evolutionary novelties emerge in microorganisms, focusing on the different types of novel traits and the role played by the environment. …icro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…
Hello RNA World! Ever wonder what's "talking to" your favorite transcript, but were too scared to ask? In our review in @CellReports, @FKHM and I highlight new RNA-focused tools for discovering RNA interactions across organizational scales. Checkit! tinyurl.com/ydn6e3ac
Final version of our paper showing that a redundant function of several allosteric regulators of glycolytic enzymes HK and PFK is to inhibit the reaction of Harden and Young. Led by @ChoeMangyu in collaboration with Tal Einav and Rob Phillips. A 🧵... (1/) cell.com/biophysj/fullt…
The GRS on Microbial Transcription @GordonConf 2025 is now over! Amazon science and people! 🦠🧬 Great experience to have served as a chair of this meeting along with @npokorzynski !! Passing the power now to Celeste and Caroline for #MoMT2027 !! #microbiology
Kicking off the 2025 Mechanisms of Microbial Transcription GRS today with keynote speaker Maria Hadjifrangiskou!
The only question that remains is how many macrophages I need to put in my head to start growing antlers.
Scientists have spurred female deer to sprout antlers by injecting their foreheads with immune cells known as macrophages. scim.ag/3ZLKIDZ
Coming back to this to say that, after a day spent troubleshooting things on R, the AI chatbot I used to try to expedite things could not have been *more wrong* about how to use the package I wanted. Like it had no clue what it was doing. Hilarious in a very painful way.
The AI hype is insane bc these things can’t even give you working code for basic R packages which have associated publications and vignettes with detailed examples. Like they give you the wrong functions! Literally not any more efficient than me struggling to do it myself
On the so-called “reproducibility crisis,” the chapter of this book on science is essential reading imo. Error is vital to scientific practice; in a significant sense it is the engine of discovery. versobooks.com/products/2215-…